On the solution approach for Bayesian modeling of initiating event frequencies and failure rates

Risk Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-252

  Hofer, Eduard ^a   Hora, Stephen C ^b   Iman, Ronald L ^c   Peschke, Jörg ^a  

^a Gesell F Anlagen R   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Common incidence rate; Failure rate; Superpopulation; Uniform convergence

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FAILURE RATES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION MODEL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031128049     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00863.x     Document Type: Article

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